✅ SOLVED To tumble or not to tumble… that is the question

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I am curious to see what this piece would look like if I were to tumble / polish it.
I would never tumble any of the complete badges I found last year, but this one is not complete, so why not clean it up a bit?

Please let me know what you think, either in favor or against it.

Thanks,
Dave


Update

I was originally thinking about tumbling this piece, primarily because it isn't complete and consequently I don't feel it holds much value from a collectible standpoint.
I was also curious as to how it might turn out though, considering how nice some of my other brass items have cleaned up.
On the other hand, I'm also very aware of the historical significance of this piece and felt that asking the membership for their opinions would be the right thing to do.

But, as you can all clearly see, the overwhelming majority of people feel that tumbling this badge would not be the right decision.
Thanks to everyone for your input!
Dave

 

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[coinman123]

AGAINST!!! It looks perfect as is, I love the patina.

 

[wainzoid]

Im not afraid to tumble anything, if the media is walnut shell or corncob.

 

[Iron Patch]

Wow are you getting badly infected from that other forum. That surface is absolutely perfect dug condition and you are asking if you should turn it into a pitted mess? There's really no good reason to tumble relics, because there's almost always a better way, and those who think taking finds down to the base metal look and is better, are very badly mistaking and some day they'll likely regret their mistakes.

 

[Fletch88]

Perfect as is!

 

[duggap]

Perfect as is!

+1 Against doing anything

 

[ironhorse]

Some people are crying for a patina like that, something only years in the ground can produce.

One word..never

Even oldman Bruce would agree

 

[coinman123]

I agree with everyone else, tumbling is for those orange clad coins and 1950's wheaties IMHO, an amazing relic like that would look awful with tumbling. That is the kind of condition I dream of finding my finds in.

 

[kingskid1611]

Yup I like it as is.

 

[trdking]

Absolutely Do Not tumble it!

 

[trdking]

EH I think we have been set up. Antiqurian knows better than that

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Thanks to everyone for their input on this topic.

As a wise man poignantly said regarding tumbling....

 

[sutphin]

Man last time I heard tumble was the song by boy George hell no man put it in a riker box and place it on the mantle, nice relic ,really stands out.vanzutphen

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Man last time I heard tumble was the song by boy George hell no man put it in a riker box and place it on the mantle, nice relic ,really stands out.vanzutphen

Thanks very much... do you mean like this?

 

[sutphin]

By god that's it man, what an nice assortment really shows how important your finds are to you and the meaning of not just the finds but the history that goes with it.vanzutphen